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Engineered antibodies targeted to bacterial surface integrate effector functions with toxin neutralization to provide superior efficacy against bacterial infections

2024-09-25 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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Anti-bacterial monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapies either rely on toxin neutralization or opsonophagocytic killing (OPK). Toxin neutralization protects the host from toxin-induced damage, while leaving the organism intact. OPK inducing antibodies clear the bacteria but leave the released toxins unencountered. Infection site targeted anti-toxin antibodies (ISTAbs) that we report here addresses this binary paradigm by combining both functionalities into a single molecule. ISTAbs consist of cell wa...

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